Editing Checkers (section)

== Invented variants ==
[[File:Dameo init config.PNG|thumb|[[Dameo]] starting position]]
*[[Blue and Gray (board game)|Blue and Gray]]: On a 9×9 board, each side has 17 guard pieces that move and jump in any direction, to escort a captain piece which races to the centre of the board to win.<ref>{{cite book|last=Sackson|first=Sid|url=https://archive.org/details/gamutgames00sack|title=A Gamut of Games|publisher=Pantheon Books|year=1982|isbn=0-394-71115-7|pages=[https://archive.org/details/gamutgames00sack/page/n23 9], 10–11|contribution=Blue and Gray|author-link=Sid Sackson|url-access=limited|via=[[Internet Archive]]|orig-year=1st Pub. 1969, [[Random House]], New York}}</ref>
*[[Cheskers]]: A variant invented by [[Solomon Golomb]].  Each player begins with a [[Bishop (chess)|bishop]] and a [[Camel (chess)|camel]] (which jumps with coordinates (3,1) rather than (2,1) so as to stay on the black squares), and men reaching the back rank promote to a bishop, camel, or king.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Cheskers|url=http://www.chessvariants.org/crossover.dir/cheskers.html|access-date=2021-10-28|website=www.chessvariants.org}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last=Pritchard | first=D. Brine | title=The encyclopedia of chess variants | publisher=Games & Puzzles | publication-place=Godalming | date=1994 | isbn=0-9524142-0-1 | oclc=60113912 | author-link = David Pritchard (chess writer)}}</ref>
* [[Damath]]: A variant utilizing math principles and numbered chips popular in the [[Philippines]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2010/02/20/550971/deped-promotes-damath|title=DepEd promotes 'Damath'|website=Philstar.com}}</ref>
* [[Dameo]]: A variant played on an 8×8 board that utilizes all 64 squares and has diagonal and orthogonal movement. A special "sliding" move is used for moving a line of checkers similar to the movement rule in [[Epaminondas (game)|Epaminondas]]. By [[Christian Freeling]] (2000).<ref>{{Cite web|title=Rules|url=https://www.mindsports.nl/index.php/arena/dameo/65-rules|access-date=2021-04-14|website=www.mindsports.nl}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Tapalnitski|first=Aleh|url=https://mindsports.nl/images/stories/arena/damvar/Dameo.pdf|title=Meet Dameo|year=2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201021081700/https://mindsports.nl/images/stories/arena/damvar/Dameo.pdf|archive-date=21 October 2020|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Freeling|first=Christian|date=2021-04-14|title=Dameo|url=https://www.abstractgames.org/uploads/1/1/6/4/116462923/abstract_games_issue_10.pdf|journal=Abstract Games... For the Competitive Thinker|volume=10 Summer 2002|pages=10–12}}</ref>
* [[Hexdame]]: A literal adaptation of [[international draughts]] to a hexagonal gameboard. By Christian Freeling (1979).<ref>Kok, Fred (Winter 2001). Kerry Handscomb (ed.). "Hexdame • A nice combination". Abstract Games. No. 8. Carpe Diem Publishing. p. 21. [[ISSN (identifier)|ISSN]] 1492-0492.</ref>
* [[Lasca]]: A checkers variant on a 7×7 board, with 25 fields used. Jumped pieces are placed under the jumper, so that towers are built. Only the top piece of a jumped tower is captured. This variant was invented by [[World Chess Championship|World Chess Champion]] [[Emanuel Lasker]].<ref>Angerstein, Wolfgang. ''Board Game Studies: Das Säulenspiel Laska: Renaissance einer fast vergessenen Dame-Variante mit Verbindungen zum Schach''. Vol. 5, CNWS Publications, 2002, pp. 79-99, [http://bgsj.ludus-opuscula.org/PDF_Files/BGS5-complete.pdf bgsj.ludus-opuscula.org/PDF_Files/BGS5-complete.pdf.] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160602193723/http://bgsj.ludus-opuscula.org/PDF_Files/BGS5-complete.pdf |date=2 June 2016 }}. Accessed 16 Dec. 2021.</ref>
* [[Philosophy shogi checkers]]: A variant on a 9×9 board, game ending with capturing opponent's king. Invented by [[Inoue Enryō]] and described in Japanese book in 1890.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2012-12-19 |title=近代デジタルライブラリー - 哲学将碁哲学飛将碁指南 |url=http://kindai.da.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/861309 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121219074809/http://kindai.da.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/861309 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-12-19 |access-date=2024-10-19 |website=archive.ph}}</ref>
* [[Poddavki|Suicide checkers]] (also called ''Anti-Checkers'', ''Giveaway Checkers'' or ''Losing Draughts''): A variant where the objective of each player is to lose all of their pieces.<ref>{{Cite web|title=ФШР {{!}} Обратные шашки (поддавки)|url=https://shashki.ru/variations/poddavki/|access-date=2021-12-16|website=Федерация шашек России|language=ru-RU}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=в 18:13|first=Ольга Ворончихина 27/10/2012|title=Поддавки - Первый Чемпионат по игре в обратные шашки {{!}} Шашки всем|url=https://www.shashkivsem.ru/luchshie-igroki/v-fevrale-2011-goda-byl-proveden-i-oficialnyj-chempionat-rossii-po-shashechnym-poddavkam.html|access-date=2021-12-16}}</ref>